Iran's involvement makes perfect sense, given that they are a Shi'ite majority country. The last thing they want is a sectarian Sunni regime running Iraq in a manner that would brutal and bloody by even Saddam's standards.

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Iran's involvement makes perfect sense, given that they are a Shi'ite majority country. The last thing they want is a sectarian Sunni regime running Iraq in a manner that would brutal and bloody by even Saddam's standards.

The couldn't care less if it's brutal and bloody.

In fact, they prefer it that way.

It's just that they want their 'team' in power.

This is the Arab/moo slum CHAOS based 'culture'.

You see this exact same nonsense all over the world wherever the Global Cancer that is the Dark Ages DEATH Cult can get away with it.

It's funny how you so called enlightened educated people forget how the rest of the world had to come and fix the cluster fuck that was World War II.
What was the body count there?
50 million?
You conveniently forget Yougoslavia and Czechoslovakia too.
As if Europeans carry on any better

Not one nation or empire has ever successfully invaded Afghanistan or Iraq. Many have tried and failed. This is only history repeating itself.

Baghdad was sacked by the mongols in 1258.

The destruction was such that the region never fully recovered.

The streets ran red with blood, the rivers ran black with ink, the population of what was the most educated and advanced society in the world at the time was decimated - ending the Islamic Golden Age.

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"Iraq in 1258 was very different from present day Iraq. Its agriculture was supported by canal networks thousands of years old. Baghdad was one of the most brilliant intellectual centers in the world. The Mongol destruction of Baghdad was a psychological blow from which Islam never recovered. With the sack of Baghdad, the intellectual flowering of Islam was snuffed out. Imagining the Athens of Pericles and Aristotle obliterated by a nuclear weapon begins to suggest the enormity of the blow. The Mongols filled in the irrigation canals and left Iraq too depopulated to restore them."

"They swept through the city like hungry falcons attacking a flight of doves, or like raging wolves attacking sheep, with loose reins and shameless faces, murdering and spreading terror...beds and cushions made of gold and encrusted with jewels were cut to pieces with knives and torn to shreds. Those hiding behind the veils of the great Harem were dragged...through the streets and alleys, each of them becoming a plaything...as the population died at the hands of the invaders."

-- Abdullah Wassaf as cited by David Morgan

So, honestly, the strife in the area can be traced back to that invasion.

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